UK: Ahmadi Muslims "express solidarity against extremism"

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National president Rafiq Hayat said: "We hope that the perpetrators of this crime, that is based on a twisted and warped ideology, are brought to justice."

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | UK Desk
Source/Credit: BBC News
By BBC News | Excerpts | May 24, 2013

Woolwich attack 'incredibly hard' to stop

Preventing the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby outside Woolwich Barracks would have been "incredibly hard", an ex-senior intelligence officer has said.

The UK's security services face a Commons inquiry after it was confirmed the two men arrested over his murder were known to MI5 for eight years.

They are now known to be Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.

Ex-MI6 counter-terrorism head Richard Barrett said little can be done to stop attacks that need little preparation.

His warning came as video footage, obtained by the Daily Mirror, emerged showing the moment police shot Mr Adebolajo, 28, originally of Romford, Essex, and Mr Adebowale, 22, of Greenwich, south-east London.

It shows one of the men charge at police sitting in a patrol car. He drops a knife as he is shot and falls to the ground.
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Ahmadi Muslims condemn terror attack

Meanwhile, thousands of members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community are expected to gather in London to offer prayers for the dead soldier and his family and to "express solidarity against extremism".

National president Rafiq Hayat said: "We hope that the perpetrators of this crime, that is based on a twisted and warped ideology, are brought to justice."

And Canon Philip Miller, who will lead prayers for Drummer Rigby in his home town of Middleton, Greater Manchester, on Friday morning said: "We feel for Lee, who's lost his life with so much ahead of him and so much potential and so much of his life to live, a brave young man like that.

"So we feel for him but we also feel for Mum and Dad and the rest of the family and what they must be going through, and we can only imagine."

On Thursday, Drummer Rigby's family paid tribute to "a loving son, husband, father, brother, and uncle, and a friend to many".
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Killer part of an Islamist group

The BBC has uncovered its own footage of Mr Adebolajo taking part in an Islamist demonstration in April 2007 against the arrest of a man from Luton, holding a placard reading "Crusade Against Muslims".

He is shown standing next to then-leader of the now banned al-Muhajiroun organisation, Anjem Choudary, who has said Mr Adebolajo went his own way in around 2010.

Shortly after killing Drummer Rigby on Wednesday, Mr Adebolajo, was filmed by a passer-by saying he carried out the attack because British soldiers killed Muslims every day.

Mr Choudary appeared on Newsnight on Thursday and said Mr Adebolajo had made comments that "I think not many Muslims can disagree with".

The radical Islamist preacher was asked on several occasions by presenter Kirsty Wark whether he "abhorred" what had happened in Woolwich but instead he said he was "shocked" by what had happened.
Drummer Lee Rigby Drummer Rigby's family paid tribute to "a loving son, husband, father, brother, and uncle, and a friend to many"

He also said: "One man killed in the street does not equate to the hundreds and thousands and millions, in fact, who've been slaughtered by the British and American foreign policy."
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